13 January 2011

Bernadotte wedding postponed

In November 2010 I wrote that Count Carl Johan "Jan" Gustaf Wilhelm Bernadotte af Wisborg, son of Count Lennart Bernadotte af Wisborg, born Prince of Sweden, and his first wife Karin, née Nisswandt, was going to get married to Gunilla Stenfors in Hyftinge church on 8 January 2011. This would be Jan Bernadotte's 7th marriage.

The Swedish magagzine Svensk Damtidning writes today that the wedding has been postponed because Jan Bernadotte's divorce from Christiane Grandmontagne was not yet finalized (he is listed as unmarried at Ratsit.se, though).

According to Svensk Damtidning the couple insists that the wedding is still going to take place, but the divorce has to be formalized first. They said that the postponement doesn't matter too much, as this love is going to last for life.

This blog is written by Dag T. Hoelseth, a Norwegian historian specialising in royal history.
I have a Cand.philol. degree in history from the University of Oslo and graduated in 1997 with the dissertation Det nasjonale kongedømme. Det norske monarkiet 1905-1910, which dealt with the royal election in Norway 1905 and how the new dynasty "became Norwegian".
I am the author of Historisk utredning om Kongehuset, dets apanasjer og disponible statseiendommer, which was published on behalf of the Palace Committee in 2001. The report focused among others on the history of the Norwegian civil list from 1905 to the 1970s as well as the properties the king of Norway has to his disposal.
I have made contributions to several antologies and also written articles for various publications. More often I have operated "behind the scene", consulting newspapers etc. with background information.
Among my other interests are genealogy, Norwegian-American emigration history, US presidential history, traveling, football and ice hockey.